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What’s The World Around Town? By Zeaus

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https://maphub.net/ZeausC/steinbach-geography-project

(I had trouble embedding, if you’re seeing this after 2021-03-19 and it’s for marks, I emailed Mr. Purdy at 4:00 but he has yet to respond. I apologize for this inconvenience.)

Reflection

“Was I able to identify how the geography impacts the town/city with ease? How was I able to find how the physical geography in these areas?

Identifying the geographical impact on Steinbach was pretty easy as the notes given to us in class helped solve a lot of what we’d need to do as research. Finding the geographical impact was also made easier through the notes given in class. Basically Mr. Wilkinson did the hard parts for us.

“How did technology personally affect my learning? What were the pros and cons of using Map.hub?”

Map hub was very easy to use, at first when we were doing this project I thought we’d have to make maps of the city or town that we did but draw them digitally, which I am terrible at doing fine lines with a mouse or even a mouse pad on a laptop. Map.hub is simple because it takes layouts similar to google maps and allows you to add points of interests. I guess the only con that I really had was that when it asks you if you want to delete something you can delete a whole marker. This definitely didn’t happen when I was trying to get rid of a sentence.

“How would you refine your assignments in the future?”

Definitely picking a more interesting city. When you pick a town that’s just surrounded by dry fields and flatlands, it gets pretty uninteresting. Luckily though Steinbach wasn’t too boring and I was able to make a decent map. Another way I could refine something similar to this would probably be adding more information on certain markers, maybe even add more markers.

“Were you satisfied with the result of you design and solutions?”

I’m definitely proud of my map. I learned about a city that I will probably never visit in my life, but it’s cool to see how different land can be when we’re only 2,000 KM away from each other. I believe my marker on Steinbach in 25 years will either be close or completely off target.

My Podcast

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What were the books you read? Did you enjoy them?

As mentioned in the podcast I read The Five People you meet in heaven by Mitch Albom while Chase read Little Brother by Cory Doctorow. I definitely liked my book because of how realistic it was, the lessons it teaches and the short but rewarding story that really makes you feel for each character it introduces. I didn’t mention this in the podcast but in one part of the story it makes you feel anger or disgust towards a character but then you feel pity for the exact same character, And that’s why I believe this book is so good. No matter who they are, it evokes some sort of emotion out of you, even at the end it talks about someone from the bank, a very minor character but you can just get this sort of “pathetic ” feeling from him because he’s treating this person who we’ve learned about and seen their life treated like nothing but an ordinary case. But that’s how life is and Eddie’s life was just an ordinary case.

How did you feel about working with a partner? Did you make the work equal? Was it more trouble than a benefit?

Working with Chase was a fun experience because I could tell he sort of wasn’t enthusiastic that we had to do this but he still gave it his all and afterwards we both seemed to enjoy recording the podcast. Also on one side he thought of his book as being decent but not the best, even boring at times. But I loved my book and I was able to go into depth with a few of my questions. One question though I did forget what Chase had asked so I may have started talking about something else. But overall working with a partner was definitely a benefit and better than writing a boring essay about our books.

What was your takeaway from the project?

The takeaway I got from this project was that just because a novel is short doesn’t mean the story won’t be interesting. With most of the books I’ve read the shorter books lean on more of a kids story, but this book may only be around 200 pages long but it leans into some very realistic topics like I do believe it’s called Combat Stress Reaction or CSR where a soldier basically gives up fighting or like what happens to Eddie they want to do something good in their time of war so they become delusional and start imagining things that aren’t there. But Eddie wasn’t entirely delusional.